Somerby always does a bang-up job on picking out media narrative and noting come hell or high water they rarely change. But today he's got a beauty.
This is what he picked out from a CNN transcript, starring CNN reporter Kyra Phillips:
I have to tell you, I heard that quote. And I thought, “OK, General, would you stop being so PC and stop saying what everybody wants?” Of course everybody wants peace in Iraq. And I even sent him an e-mail this morning. We've been having correspondence. And I said, "Give me a break. Tell me what you really were saying."
And he said right here—he said, "I'm not going to lie. I talk about the setbacks as well. There have also been the sensational car-bomb attacks, the tragic loss of the combat outpost three days ago, and the challenges in Diyala province, which, understandably, have tended to overshadow the sense of slow progress on the ground in Baghdad, Anbar and some other locations."
He's a straight-shooter. You've just got to know what to ask him and how to pick at him.
Hilarious! According to Phillips, Petraeus had given an utterly “PC answer;” he had been “saying what everyone wants.” But so what? She swore that he was a straight-shooter anyhoo! “You just have to know what to ask him,” she said.
Yes, Petraeus is the straight-shooting guy who says what everyone wants. I've heard rumors that the 'journalists' at CNN are quite well compensated for their labours. Can you believe that?
See here for some indications of Petraeus' straight-shooting.
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